Comments on: 2009 CQ WW CW Contest Summary – 3 New DXCCs

By: Scot R. Morrison

Scot R. Morrison — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:32:54 +0000

Congratulations on your fine effort and excellent score!

Working VK6AA on 40m from the east coast on the second call speaks to operator and station engineering with a little help from low band propagation. Low band work really wrecks my sleeping schedule however logging those multipliers makes a difference later in the event.

I did learn understanding seasonal propagation would help my sleeping schedule. I woke early Saturday morning and missed important multipliers on 80m, instead, I needed to stay up late on Friday night.

I’m enjoying your content and keep up the great work! Best RadioSport results from the shackadelic on the beach.

73
KA3DRR

By: K2DSL

K2DSL — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:30:24 +0000

Dave, thanks for posting. I heard you during the contest two or three times over the weekend. I saw your score posted to 3830 before I saw the comment on my blog and noticed we were very close again in number of contacts.

Looks like I worked 2 hours on Fri night, 8.5 hours on Saturday and 10 hours Sunday, like you using 30 mins as the time to determine if I wasn’t on the air. That comes to 20.5 hours for me using very rudimentary calculations.

Another BARA club member K2ZC had a good score with 466 Q’a of which 184 were on 40m though you had more zone’s in less Q’s.

Fun contest and thanks for the post Dave!

By: David, K2DBK

David, K2DBK — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:34:09 +0000

Great job! My results were very similar to yours, though I was active more in the evenings (not much at all in the morning) and as a result, I’ve got more on 40m. It’s interesting to compare because we have similar working conditions (100w to G5RV and are in the same general area). According to my logger, I was on for around 16 hours (though given that I’ll sometimes make a contact, do something else for a while, but not 30 minutes, which constitutes “official” off-time, that’s probably a little overstated). Given our similar scores, I’m curious as to how long you operated for?

Here’s my summary:

         Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   ZN
         3.5      17      36   11    6
           7     145     401   66   20
          14     119     301   51   21
          21      47     120   33   16
          28       5      7    4    4
       Total     333     865  165   67